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I think we might find them a bit sickly now, though!

The cakes are mentioned in Barbara Vine's 1998 novel The Chimney Sweeper's Boy. The narrator says that they had just come back into the shops after a forty years' absence. Assuming the novel is set in the late 1990s, does this sound right?

A suit and tie on the beach - hard to imagine now! Perhaps it was a bit chilly that day. It's a nice photo, with everyone looking cheerful. I know that my sister was stung by a jellyfish at either Rhyll or Llandudno, but don't remember it. I wonder how our parents chose guest houses and what...

Me too!! I'm not sure if you can still get it.

There's a bit about her here and a picture: https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com/2014/02/07/angela-rippon-and-female-firsts/

I think we used to buy the pineapple tarts from Wimbush.

I think I've seen these in Waitrose, but can't be sure. What I have seen there are blackcurrant tarts (Auntie used to buy them from M& S in the 60s and 70s), which were a layer of blackcurrant on the tart base, then a small circle of sponge on top, which was surrounded by butter cream, or some...

It's on Talking Pictures TV at 7.00. p.m. today (probably at other times as well). It's about the annual Road Patrol and lasts 15 minutes.

Thanks, Rosie, I'll take a look!

I probably am. Glad it wasn't demolished.

I remember the loggia (if that's the right word), the long stone building. Was it simply knocked down? I suppose it must have been.

For some reason, these sweets came into my mind yesterday. But I can't remember what they were like - soft, I suppose.

I think the Bristol Lewis's had a roof garden.

There's something interesting about them - I suppose they're a bit mysterious. There are some in Reading.

I think there was a shop at the lower end of Belchers Lane that had the sort of window that is thrust forward with a gap and then another similar window - it's hard to describe, but there's a space between two windows that you can go into.

I like that style of shop window. It probably has a name.

It's really interesting, like the previous one.

I was going to ask what the building site was.

I also remember the smell of the biscuits in large open tins.

Coffee beans! The food hall seemed to have unusual things.